he said is having BDOS when he is overclocking!!!!!!!!!! infact if you read a thread like this to buy a board you might want to read every post carefully and assume they are OCing unless saying otherwise because on forums like this it is very ODD if a board BDOSes at stock, and this board does NOT, neither do any of the GBT Z87 boards. There were issues with GBT Z77 boards but they had their BCLK OCed at stock and this caused issues with everything tied to the BCLK, on Z87 the BCLK is intentionally set to 99.8 b/c of this so there is no chance of BDOS from it, youc an set it to 100.00 or even higher, but GBT had it going to 101-102 on Z77. However there are millions of reasons for BDOS other than the board, for instance if a user doesn't do a fresh install, software, new drivers, PSU incompatibility with the new sleep states, ET, memory(memory is the #1 as it is the most likely component to be defected), CPU OC, memory OC, installing one brand GPU and moving to another without cleaning out their others drivers, different SATA modes, and so on. I already asked him is he is overclocking he said yes in the post right after. Same with the other guy saying he is crashing lol, they are expecting too high of 24/7 clocks out of the CPU, even though naviblue's CPU is pretty good . Anyways I have tested the CPU OC on the G1.Sniper 5 and Z87X-OC as far as the CPU goes they all are exactly the same except it is hard to change the ratio in Windows with the sniper 5 b/c of lack of on the fly OC controls, but GTL will fix that.

Any changes to required vcore or higher clocks can only come from intel has this point, it is how Intel designed the platform. Also higher overlcocks coming from latest BIOSes is a sign Intel is doing their best to optimize the microcode for the retail CPUs. All the motherboard VRM needs to do is provide a specified amount of current and then the FIVR dictates everything else. The manufacturer can't even really change LLC parameters other than allowing the vdroop on the motherboard VRM control the vdroop on the FIVR. Also it also seems that the CPUz vcore reading is not reported directly from the FIVR as I had thought, the motherboard maker also can influence this.

These boards are very stable at stock, only issue with the platform is the CPU itself can't handle over 4.5ghz for 24/7 OCes on $50-$100 air or water. Also why would the motherboard be unstable? Why not the memory or PSU or CPU OC? I mean damn do I need to make videos proving stability at stock?

So please if you are having stability issues at stock that is a major claim, so please now on in these threads, please state everything clearly, realize that many people will be reading this thread to see how the boards are performing. I know these threads get a lot of hits mainly because I actually can report these issues, but realize that I wont report bull****.

BTW the audio port output can be changed by software.. Also audio is pretty different different audio playback devices will react differently to different amps and types of music, the hard thign about describing audio is that it is subjective.

Nviblue- can you tell me, are you using easytune?Edited by Sin0822 - 6/10/13 at 7:03pm

Yes that should be the amped one, its shown on the backpanel i/o, have you tried turning down the volume or trying the other included amp? You can also disable the stupid Core3D software enhancements. Also you might want to change the default output bitrate and frequency.